Zaria, Nigeria: Explosions at three churches in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state killed at least seven people on Sunday, leading furious Christian youths to drag Muslims out of their cars and kill them in retaliation, officials and witnesses said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has often attacked church services in Nigeria, split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims.

The explosions and retaliatory attacks stoked fears of wider sectarian conflict in Africa’s top oil producer and Opec member, although flare-ups of this nature are usually brief.

Two explosions rocked churches in the town of Zaria within minutes of each other. First, a suicide bomber drove a blue Honda civic into a church, burning the front entrance and damaging the building, the church’s pastor told a Reuters cameraman at the scene.

“Three people are confirmed killed. Others have been taken to hospital for treatment,” Reverend Nathan Waziri said.

Then, militants threw bombs at another church, killing four children who were playing on the streets outside, said resident Deborah Osagie, who lives opposite the church. She added that the militants were later caught by a mob and killed.

A blast hit a third church in the state’s main city of Kaduna, causing an unknown number of casualties, witnesses and the National Emergency Management Agency said.

After the bombs, angry youths blocked the highway leading south out of Kaduna to the capital Abuja, dragging Muslims out of their cars and killing them, witnesses said.

“We had to return home when we saw them [the Christian youths] attacking. I saw many bodies on the ground but I don’t know how many were dead or just injured,” said Kaduna resident Rafael Gwaza.

Witness Haruna Eisa said up to 20 people may have been killed in reprisals at the road block. “There were bodies everywhere on the ground,” he said.

Radicalised

Regular attacks on Sunday church services are usually claimed by Boko Haram, which says it is fighting to reinstate an ancient Islamic caliphate that would adhere to strict Sharia.

Boko Haram, which has become increasingly radicalised and meshed with other groups in the region, including Al Qaida’s north African wing, is the leading security threat to Nigeria.

Militants also attacked two churches in Nigeria last Sunday, spraying the congregation of one with bullets, killing at least one person, and blowing up a car in a suicide bombing at the other, wounding 41.

The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, has justified attacks on Christians as revenge for killings of Muslims in Nigeria’s volatile “Middle Belt”, where the largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north meet.

“The reality is: this is the kind of violence that they want to precipitate across the entire country.” More concerning is that it doesn’t look like it will stop with just the North being under full Sharia. It’s the kind of violence that president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathon, is facing spreading throughout the rest of the country.”

Moeller says there are also concerns that Christians will strike back. On May 42, church leaders issued a final warning and issued demands for protection. Will this attack be the “tipping point?” Moeller says they’re still encouraging believers not to give in to retaliation. “Violence in response to violence only produces more violence.” However, he goes on to acknowledge that “the question here is, ‘At what point is enough, enough?’ You take whatever steps necessary to protect your family, your church, and your community. I think that point is drawing very close where the Christians of Nigeria are going to be making responses and retaliation.”

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enough is enough;when will governments stop kowtowing to islam terrorists???? enough is enough, enough is enough, period; let’s reverse the tables; destroy the mosques and see them go through what they are doing to Christians

For more than 1400 years Islam has waged war on non-believers. Today, Islam is on the march in every corner of the globe under the Black Flag of the Mahdi. Why now? Sun Tzu taught that in order to defeat the enemy you must first identify him. Its not coincidence that attacks against Christians and other non-Islams occurs immediately after Muslim Friday prayers. The head of the snake resides in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The vast wealth generated from oil sales funds the expansion of Saudi trained Wahhabi Imams and Mosques throughout the world. There is a collective voice among the Imams to attack infidels. Having identified the enemy, we must alert the public and strike at the heart of this evil menace.

Progressive governments like those in America and England ignore the threat of Islam to our peril. In fact they do everything that they can to mislead the public about this threat. For example, in America, President Obama ordered the removal from government documents any material that demonstrates Islam is violent. Then there is England, which refers to Muslims as Asians when describing the perpetrators of heinous crimes against non-Muslims . This has to stop. The public needs to learn that Islam is a political system with one goal and one goal only. That goal is to eradicate the earth of all non-believers through violence and intimidation. The Muslims brought the war to us, now it is time to bring it to them and end this evil system once and for all time.

i SAY WE START BOMBING ALL THE MASQUE THEY ERECT, IF THEY WANT TO BUILD THEM GO BACK FROM WHENCE YOU CAME,AND JUST BUILD YOUR LITTLE WALLETS ERECT ALL THE MASQUE..
ORRRRRRR , THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE IDIOTS GET THE MESSAGE. WE WILL GO OVER TO ALL THE MUSLIMS COUNTRIES AND BUILD ,BABTIST ,LUTHERAN, CATHOLIC, AND ALL KIND OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THIER COUNTRY,I THINK THAT IS ONLY FAIR TRADE. AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT WE CAN BUILD RESTURANTS THAT SERVE PORK ROAST,BBQ RIBS, SERVE COCTAILS.
I KNOW FOR A FACT WHEN THEY ARE HERE THEY LIVE IT UP WITH OUR CUSTOMS AND OUR MENUE,AND COCTAILS.THEY HAVE BEEN IN MY HOME, I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE LIKE.
HAVE I HELP ANY?

Bombing their Mosques is not the answer. Defeating Progressives and replacing them with Patriots is a start. For your edification, there are no Christian Churches in Saudi Arabia. In fact, you can be jailed or worse for simply having a bible in your possession.

Dear Bobby: I believe that a grass roots movement as you describe is not possible at the moment. Our Universities are staffed with Progressive Professors who teach our children that Nationalism and love of God is evil. That being said, you can make a difference by supporting Blogs like this one, Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, etc. You can write to the Churches of America and challenge them to get involved. I had a dream not to long ago that shook me to the bone.

In this dream, the Lord was speaking to the leaders of the Christian Church. They wanted to know why He abandoned them in their hour of need. The Lord responded, “I don’t know you.”

For the record, I do not believe turning the other cheek is ever appropriate when your family is threatened. However, I do believe in the law. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects religious freedom. However, not all religious practices are protected by the First Amendment. For example, religions that practice polygamy, rape rituals, human sacrifice, gender discrimination, murder, are not protected practices under the First Amendment. Islam’s books, the Koran, Hadiths, and Suna, call for the murder of apostates, polygamy, marriage with minors, and the waging of war against non-believers and infidels. Wahhabi teaching goes on to call for the murder of Jews, Christians, and infidels as they spread Islam throughout the world. This is their Achilles heal.

In every city, every State of the Union, Islam needs to be challenged in our Court of Law as a religion lacking in First Amendment protections. The Koran, Hadiths, and Suna’s are the evidence to prove that Islam violates the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Moreover, Islam violates the UN Convention of Genocide because it demands that its followers wage war against a population based solely on the populations religious beliefs and ethnicity. Noteworthy, is the fact that Islam violates the United Nations Human Rights laws.

In conclusion, American’s need to take the fight directly to CAIR, MSA, and Mosques in our courts. We need to strip them of First Amendment protections. We need laws that strengthen our sedition laws by including statutes to the RICO laws. Their is a conspiracy in our land to end our way of life, destroy our culture, and eliminate our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Attacks on the 2nd Amendment are but one of their goals. in England the people were forced to give up their weapons. Now defenseless, Muslims are on the march unabated by the threat of armed resistance. I hope my comments help. I have problems convincing my own family of the threat posed by the expansion of Islam in America and beyond. But, I keep trying. I will never give up. I will never turn the other cheek. I will fight when the time is right. I am an American!

That’s the religeon of peace and tolerance! Mainly, if the muslins live live ou of their original countries or in christian countries, in buddist countries…., in Europe, america…..but if our brothers and sisters christians, buddists, gay, lesbian or atheist live in their muslin countries they will be beheaded, sure!